This short story skillfully illustrates the mechanism of the butterfly effect. You are probably familiar with this concept, whereby a small change in the initial stages of a system can lead to large, unintended, and sometimes disastrous consequences elsewhere over time. An accident that happened to a butterfly stands as a metaphor for how a seemingly insignificant event can destabilize and eventually destroy an entire system. In this story, the characters have to learn how a little butterfly's m...

Rich people hunt and kill animals for sport. They even pay a lot of money to travel through time and kill the largest predators of them all: dinosaurs. The time travelers are instructed not to stray from the path, as changing history even just a little bit can have really big consequences in the present. But these hunters aren’t used to following orders.This is a science fiction story about the butterfly effect done right. There are also some other important themes carefully woven into it. Like ...

Não tenho a certeza de alguma vez ter lido ficção científica; é provável pois a minha irmã em jovem era apreciadora do género e tinha alguns livros.Resolvi ler este conto em PT/BR -uma tradução bem boa - e abriu-se um novo mundo através da pena de Ray Bradbury, um autor que é um primor a escrever e um exemplo de criatividade. O conto é ambientado num futuro distante onde as viagens ao passado são possíveis. Há uma agência de viagens que vende safaris para caçar dinossauros; no entanto, há regras...

هزيم الرعد قصة قصيرة نُشِرت في مجلة أمريكية عام ١٩٥٢ للكاتب الأمريكي راي برادبري صاحب الرواية الشهيرة فرنهايت ٤٥١ و تحوَّلت هذه القصة إلى فيلم سينمائي عام 2005...

القصة مبنية علي مفهوم تأثير الفراشة وذلك من خلال شركة تنظم رحلات صيد للسفر عبر الزمن ٦٠ مليون عام في الماضي وبتوضح إزاي إحداث تغيير طفيف في الماضي ممكن يغير الحاضر بشكل كبير جداً...

حلوة القصة ..فكرتها ممتازة و مكتوبة ببراعة..

أثر الفراشة.. قصة تم تناولها كثيرًا فى الأدب و ابرزهم ستيفن كينج و تم أقتباسها فى السينما، لكن الطريقة التي تناول بها راي برادييري القصة كانت بحرفية متقنة و الفكرة تنم عن خيال خصب خاصةً إنها تم كتابتها منذ اكثر من ٥٠ عام فى ١٩٥٢ بالتحديد لذلك كان تقديري لها كبيرًا بالإضافة طبعًا الى استمتاعي بها كثيرًا .الرواية فى المستقبل عن شركة تمتلك آلة زمن تاخذ محبي المغامرات و الصيادون لزمن الديناصورات لاصطيادهم لكن يوجد قوانين معينة حتي لا تعبث بالمستقبل و يختل النظام .. على الرغم من إتخاذ كل الإجراءات ال...

An interesting story about time travel and its ripple effect by sci-fi master Ray Bradbury. The story follows a rich hunter who wants to travel to the past to kill a dinosaur. But it turns out to be unlike what he expected and the repercussions dawn on him only later. I enjoyed how Bradbury introduced the butterfly effect with the help of a butterfly. While the story is much simplistic about time travel, it still enthralls. On a side note, President Deutscher reminded me of the former President ...

Libro aceptableLeí esta pequeña historia porque en el libro 22/11/63 de Stephen King, los personajes mencionan este libro y dicen que aquí se explica el efecto mariposa. Por eso lo busqué, lo leí y en menos de diez minutos lo terminé.Es una historia escrita de forma sencilla. Al leerlo, me hizo recordar un capítulo de Los Simpson en el que Homero regresa en el tiempo con una tostadora y altera el futuro. Luego de pensar en esta casualidad y conociendo que Los Simpson usan muchas referencias para...

A short story about using a time machine to hunt dinosaurs. The company that runs the trips is explicitly aware of the risks: “We don’t want to change the Future”, hence oxygen helmets, sterilised clothes, and an anti-gravity path that “Doesn’t touch so much as one grass blade”. What could possibly go wrong?It was more clichéd than exciting for me, but Bradbury wrote it in 1952, whereas the other explorations of these ideas I’ve read and watched mostly date from after that. It’s always a shame w...

This is the Ray Bradbury SF story that inspired the "butterfly effect" theory ... well, maybe. At least there's a really intriguing connection there! Review first posted at www.fantasyliterature.com. You can read this classic story online here: http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/A...In the year 2055 (about 100 years in the future when Ray Bradbury wrote this classic science fiction short story), one of the uses of time travel is for big game “safari” hunting: hunters pay a huge fee to take a gu...

The butterfly effect is a term coined by Edward Lorenz, an American mathematician, meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory (and who does NOT look like Jeff Goldblum) that essentially says that a hurricane can be influenced by the distant flapping of butterfly wings several weeks earlier. Although his research took place in the 50s, his description of the idea took place in the later 60s.Ray Bradbury’s short story A Sound of Thunder, first published in Collier's magazine in the June 28, 1952...